"Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis."
#OTD in 1904.
"The Sisters" by James Joyce, the first of a series of short stories called Dubliners, was originally published in the Irish Homestead.
"The Sisters" was Joyce's first published work of fiction. Joyce later revised the story and had it, along with the rest of the series, published in book form in 1914.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_(short_story)
Dubliners at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814